What's wrong with nursing today

... Even the works of mercy have become professionalized, so that a girl who wants to spend herself as a nurse or social worker usually finds herself instead making rather a good thing of a career to which the sick and the poor are incidental. This is the fundamental reason for discontent among nurses and social workers. They are unhappy not so much because they are underpaid, but because they are paid.

- Carol Robinson, My Life With Thomas Aquinas (p 92).